Chikungunya & Dengue

Please remember that all govt stats are based on lab confirmed cases. There is no one here able to test. Even in the US the CDC says (note it recommends Biosafety Level testing which is not here):

"Where can I order chikungunya virus testing?
Diagnostic testing is available through a few commercial laboratories, many state health departments, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Contact your state health department for more information and to facilitate testing.

Chikungunya virus infection should be considered in patients with acute onset of fever and polyarthralgia, especially travelers who recently returned from areas with known virus transmission.

Laboratory diagnosis is generally accomplished by testing serum or plasma to detect virus, viral nucleic acid, or virus-specific immunoglobulin (Ig) M and neutralizing antibodies. Viral culture may detect virus in the first 3 days of illness; however, chikungunya virus should be handled under biosafety level (BSL) 3 conditions. During the first 8 days of illness, chikungunya viral RNA can often be identified in serum. Chikungunya virus antibodies normally develop toward the end of the first week of illness. Therefore, to definitively rule out the diagnosis, convalescent-phase samples should be obtained from patients whose acute-phase samples test negative."

Down here it is pretty much you know you have it and all you can do is take Tylenol (in case it is Dengue where you do not want to take Aspirin or Ibuprofen)